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For a DHT alternative you might want to look at how syncthing implements TCP relays to allow hole punching and communication over Tor. Magic-Wormhole a secure simple file transfer tool...

Any network, including DHT and P2P ones will rely on bootstrap nodes to help them reach the wider network. This is unavoidable. DHT can never be used over Tor and...

@gpestana I'm sorry but nothing you can come up with can match or surpass the anonymity of Tor which has been around forever and has a proven track-record. Unless your...

There are some other attractive features besides improved crypto algos. Now an onion address is confidential unless disclosed. Hidden Service Directories can no longer learn what sites there are. In...

@special Hi I recently discussed removing the ControlPort dependency entirely from software that uses Tor such as TBB and Onionshare because a ControlPort filter is not robust enough to provide...

> But, I realize it is important for those kinds of systems. The control port filter is my preference, but if it becomes necessary we can try to work out...

> I will have to change the reconnection behavior on these systems, which causes more traffic and is something the peer/network could detect. If the user is running their system...

Tor-over-tor is discouraged by upstream because of unclear implications for a user's security. They are also planning to prevent this from being allowed because of bandwidth amplification attacks that could...

> As far as I know, there aren't any imminent plans to change this. Do you know of anything? Its a trac ticket I read quite recently. It is going...

It won't really change your calculus for the workaround you suggested, but this CVE published today shows exactly the kind of security holes in ControlPort filtering I was talking about....